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Develop your academic and study skills

We offer a range of online and face-to-face resources to help you succeed in your studies

For undergraduate and postgraduate students • Free workshops • Peer Academic Coaches • Peer Assisted Study Sessions • Online toolkits • Language and numeracy support • Studiosity (Pilot in Semester 2) • And much more

Semester 2 Pilot

What does Studiosity offer to you? 1. Get feedback on English writing for draft essays and reports. Results usually returned within 24 hours. 2. Live online assistance from subject specialists in core areas such as English, Science, Maths and Statistics. Available Sunday to Friday, 1pm to 10pm. Access Studiosity from within your LMS site. Available to students enrolled in Units participating in pilot. Visit the Studiosity site for more information on how it works.

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Study Help Options 1

For weekly assistance, attend your PASS classes (PASS is not available for not all units). http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-life/Study-successfully/PASS/ Spend 10 minutes a day (every day) online at the Communication Skills Toolkit to improve your writing skills.

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Ask a Peer Academic Coach (PAC) about understanding your assignment and steps to get started with research and reading. PACs are located in the main Library or online. http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-life/Study-successfully/Peer-Academic-Coaches/ Talk online to a Studiosity consultant to clarify how to start your assignment and other general study questions. Available 1pm to 10pm Sunday to Friday via your LMS unit site.

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Ask a librarian for help finding resources (e.g. books and journal articles) for your assignment. http://www.murdoch.edu.au/library/help-support/ask-our-librarians Use Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP) and Library guides to help you with referencing. http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-life/Study-successfully/Murdoch-Academic-Passport/

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Start writing the first draft of your assignment in a 3 hour Assignment Bootcamp in the nonteaching weeks with Dr Julia Hobson. http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-life/Study-successfully/Workshops/ Send a draft of your assignment to Studiosity an online service to get feedback. Your feedback should arrive within 24-48 hours. Use this feedback to improve your assignment.

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Make changes to your assignment based on the feedback from Studiosity . If you need to improve your sentence structure and/or grammar, get feedback from Grammarly. https://myanswers.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1575 Talk to a language or numeracy consultant either face to face or via Skype. http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-life/Study-successfully/Seeing-someone-for-help/

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Submit a draft assignment to your LMS unit site to have Urkund text-match your work against a range of sources to assist with referencing. Use all this help to redraft your assignment. Send the final draft to Studiosity for final feedback. Use the Studiosity button to send it in again. Make final changes. Now you are ready to submit your final assignment for grading through your LMS unit site. Remember it is your Unit Coordinator or Tutor who gives out grades.

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